Get in touch with Dayo in Petshop Blanch, as I said in another post, he had a really nasty strain, he persisted and after a long while he sorted it.

Kev.

Thanks Kev

I'll give him a shout tomorrow.

Protozin...as instructed on box.

I increase temperature....that speeds up the life-cycle.

Thinking life cycle again.....clean corners and inside edges of tank (a cotton wool make-up pad will do).

Make sure that corners do not become stagnated....aerate well or get good water movement into all corners and crevices. That will disrupt the stationary phase.

Then allow 6 weeks (a rule of thumb) before sayin 'all sorted'.

ian

Same process worked for me, pretty nastly strain free from petstore, serves me right for puttin them straight in, was my first fishy buy, killed 1 loach, well stressed him and something else got him.

Used higher temp and good water flow, only put to 30 degrees for 2 days and 28 deg for 15 after that. Never come back since, 6 months and counting. Fishies could not take 30 for long but 2 days and 28 for 17 after that was enough for the problem I had. That and lots of gravel cleaning water changing, can also get a 1 micron sponge for your filter, free floaters are 3-4 microns or more I think?

Stagnation at any time in your tank, manky


Mark

hi lads firstly i would like to say thanks for all the replys.. its been 3 or 4 days since i first noticed the whitespot i only managed to start the treatment today wit protozin half the recommened dose because i have few diff species of knife's i my tank..(is this correct)??? anyway iv had the temp up to 30 this been the second day and done 25% water change seem's to be all going well some of the fish tat could of had 3 or 4 spots on them might only have 1 now.. the most affected seem to be the armered cats why is this??? igmillichip as u wher sayin about cleaning right into the corners and tat i would do this every few days anyway iam a bit of a clean freek notin worse than a dirty tank.. thanks for all the advise again and if anyone can see iam doing anything wrong please say so. cheers

The bit about stagnant areas isn't really about 'dirty tanks'.

There is a stage in the life cycle of the Oodinium that requires that stage to be off-the-fish and stationary.
Hence, water movement disrupts that stage.

Good Goodness, I wouldn't suggest anyone tanks are manky